Advanced Placement United States History Summer Assignment
Due date: First day of class, August 2017
Welcome to Advanced Placement United States History for
Fall-Spring 2017-18 at Fayetteville High School. Like the course
before you, the summer assignment is both interesting and
challenging. You are expected to put forth your best effort at
reading the complex text and preparing to use the material in the
course next year. Several sources of historical information are
offered here to present the world of historiography to the novice
history student. As the text for the summer assignment represents
two diverse perspectives of American colonial history, the student
must make educated judgements on its reliability using historical
context of the material presented.
Directions: Print the assignment and place in a folder with
three brackets (the best folders are the ones made of heavy paper,
not plastic, as it easier to write your name on the outside). Make
sections for each Roman numeral. All work should be handwritten,
legible, and not typed.
The Summer Assignment will require the course textbook, The
American Pageant which can be checked out from FHS library during
spring finals and the course supplemental textbook, United States
History, by AMSCO 2016 or later edition which can be purchased on
Amazon or through the publisher OR can be borrowed from Mrs. Colly
or Mr. Jacobs. The other textbook to be used to complete the summer
assignment is A Peoples History of the United States, by Howard
Zinn. It can be found online at Historyisaweapon.com.
Please note that the assignment will take a substantial amount
of time to complete, therefore allow enough time to do the required
reading and writing. Handwritten answers are required for this
assignment.
Michael Jacobs
[email protected]
https://sites.google.com/site/odysseyofamerica/
Angela Colly
[email protected]
https://sites.google.com/a/g.fayar.net/get-apush/
I. Read American Pageant Chapters 1-3 and respond to the review
guide prompts listed below.
A. American Pageant Chapter Review Questions
CHAPTER 1: NEW WORLD BEGINNINGS: 33, 000 B.C.A.D. 1769
1. Introduction
What conditions existed in what is today the United States that
made it "fertile ground" for a great nation?
2. The Shaping of North America
Speculate how at least one geographic feature affected the
development of the United States.
3. Peopling the Americas
"Before the arrival of Europeans, the settlement of the Americas
was insignificant." Assess this statement.
4. The Earliest Americans
Describe some of the common features North American Indian
culture.
5. Indirect Discoverers of the New World
What caused Europeans to begin exploring?
6. Europeans Enter Africa
What were the results of the Portuguese explorations of
Africa?
7. Columbus Comes upon a New World
What developments set the stage for a cataclysmic shift in the
course of history?
8. When Worlds Collide
Explain the positive and negative effects of the Atlantic
Exchange.
9. The Spanish Conquistadors
Were the conquistadors great men? Explain.
10. Makers of America: The Spanish Conquistadors
Were the conquistadors' motives successfully fulfilled?
Explain.
11. The Conquest of Mexico
Why was Cortes able to defeat the powerful Aztecs?
12. The Spread of Spanish America
What is the Black Legend, and to what extent does our text agree
with it?
B. American Pageant Chapter 2 Review
CHAPTER 2: THE PLANTING OF ENGLISH AMERICA: 15001733
1. England's Imperial Stirrings
Why was England slow to establish New World colonies?
2. Elizabeth Energizes England
What steps from 1575-1600 brought England closer to colonizing
the New World?
3. England on the Eve of Empire
Explain how conditions in England around 1600 made it "ripe" to
colonize N. America.
4. England Plants the Jamestown Seedling
Give at least three reasons that so many of the Jamestown
settlers died.
5. Cultural Clash in the Chesapeake
What factors led to the poor relations between Europeans and
Native Americans in Virginia?
6. Virginia: Child of Tobacco
"By 1620 Virginia had already developed many of the features
that were important to it two centuries later." Explain.
7. Maryland: Catholic Haven
In what ways was Maryland different than Virginia?
8. The West Indies: Way Station to Mainland America
What historical consequences resulted from the cultivation of
sugar instead of tobacco in the British colonies in the West
Indies?
9. Colonizing the Carolinas
Why did Carolina become a place for aristocratic whites and many
black slaves?
10. The Emergence of North Carolina
North Carolina was called "a vale of humility between two
mountains of conceit." Explain.
11. Late-Coming Georgia: The Buffer Colony
In what ways was Georgia unique among the Southern colonies?
12. Makers of America: The Iroquois
How did the political structure of the Iroquois prove to be
first a strength and ultimately a weakness?
12. The Plantation Colonies
Which Southern colony was the most different from the others?
Explain.
C. American Pageant Chapter 3 Review Questions
CHAPTER 3: SETTLING THE NORTHERN COLONIES: 16191700
1. The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism
How did John Calvin's teachings result in some Englishmen
wanting to leave England?
2. The Pilgrims End Their Pilgrimage at Plymouth
Explain the factors that contributed to the success of the
Plymouth colony.
3. The Bay Colony Bible Commonwealth
Why did the Puritans come to America?
4. Building the Bay Colony
How democratic was the Massachusetts Bay Colony? Explain.
5. Trouble in the Bible Commonwealth
What happened to people whose religious beliefs differed from
others in Massachusetts Bay Colony?
6. The Rhode Island "Sewer"
How was Rhode Island different than Massachusetts?
7. Makers of America: The English
In what ways did the British North American colonies reflect
their mother country?
8. New England Spreads Out
Describe how Connecticut, Maine and New Hampshire were
settled.
9. Puritans versus Indians
Why did hostilities arise between Puritans and Native Americans?
What was the result?
10. Seeds of Colonial Unity and Independence
Assess the following statement, "The British colonies were
beginning to grow closer to each other by 1700."
11. Andros Promotes the First American Revolution
How did events in England affect the New England colonies'
development?
12. Old Netherlanders at New Netherlands
Explain how settlement by the Dutch led to the type of city that
New York is today.
13. Friction with English and Swedish Neighbors
"Vexations beset the Dutch company-colony from the beginning."
Explain.
14. Dutch Residues in New York
Do the Dutch have an important legacy in the United States?
Explain
15. Penn's Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania
What had William Penn and other Quakers experienced that would
make them want a colony in America?
16. Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors
Why was Pennsylvania attractive to so many Europeans and Native
Americans?
17. The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies
What do the authors mean when the say that the middle colonies
were the most American?
18. Varying Viewpoints: Europeanizing America or Americanizing
Europe?
The picture of colonial America that is emerging from all this
new scholarship is of a society uniqueand diversefrom its
inception. Explain.
II. Read AMSCOs United States History Preface, Introduction, and
Chapters 1-3
A. Create a graphic organizer of your choice demonstrating your
understanding of Historical Thinking Skills and Historical Themes
as described in the AMSCO book.
You must check out American Pageant from FHS library BEFORE you
leave for summer.
Summer Assignment due the first day of school, 2017
III. Identify the meaning of each term and how it illustrates
the theme under which they are labeled. (some may appear twice, so
choose one theme to use for the example)
National Identity (NAT)
Benjamin Franklin
Slave Codes
Roger Williams
Hernan Cortes
Quakers
The Great Awakening
Lord Baltimore
Slavery
King Philip (Chief Metacom)
Geography and the Environment (GEO)
Christopher Columbus
John Smith
John Rolfe
Hernan Cortes
Peter Stuyvesant
Henry Hudson
William Penn
William Bradford
Champlain
Dutch West India Company
Mayflower
Massachusetts Bay Company
Voyageurs
New England colonies
Middle Colonies
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Southern Colonies
America in the World (WOR)
Lord Baltimore
Benjamin Franklin
Huguenots
Conquistadors
Glorious Revolution
The Enlightenment
Mercantilism
Anglicization
Work Exchange Technology (WXT)
Enclosure
Squatter
Proprietor
Franchise
Patronship
Yeoman
Massachusetts Bay Company
Indentured Servants
Headright System
Virginia company
Joint-Stock Company
Hunting, gathering, fishing, farming
Migration and Settlement (MIG)
Christopher Columbus
John Smith
Conquistadors
John Rolfe
Pilgrims
Lord Baltimore
Bartolome De Las Casas
James Oglethorpe
Hernan Cortes
Mestizos
Great Puritan Migration
Yeomen
Middle Passage
Headright system
Culture and Society (CUL)
Separatists
John Calvin
Old and New Lights
The Elect
Protestant Reformation
Half Way Covenant
Anne Hutchinson
Roger Williams
Thomas Hooker
John Cotton
William Penn
Visible Saints
Conversion
Predestination
Antinomianism
Quakers
Calvinism
Puritans
Protestant Ethic
Jeremiads
The Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Salem witchcraft trial
Politics and Power (POL)
Dominion of New England
House of Burgesses
Spanish Armada
Separatists
King Philip's War
Restoration
Walter Raleigh
Queen Annes War
King Williams War
Primogeniture
Maryland Act of Toleration
Fundamental Orders
Navigation Laws
Mayflower Compact
Bible Commonwealth
New England Confederation
General Court
Bacons Rebellion
IV. Howard Zinn = A Peoples History of the United States
Read chapters one through three in the textbook (online is fine)
then answer the three questions for each chapter. Note, each answer
must have at least three complete sentences answering the question,
quotes from the text may be used if appropriate for the response.
Only three or four words of text should be used as evidence to
support your answer (do NOT quote whole phrases, sentences or
paragraphs).
A. Chapter One questions
1. According to Zinn, what were three problems that led to the
clash between Europeans and Indians?
2. How did the Spanish and English differ in the motives to
annihilate the presence of Indians from their native lands? Give
three specifics to support your answer.
3. Explain why Zinn believed many treat men like Columbus as
heros.
B. Chapter Two questions
1. Describe slavery in Africa and compare it to slavery in
Colonial America.
2. According to Zinn, why is racism NOT a system occurring from
natural causes, but rather a system designed by men? Include
evidence from the text.
3. How prevalent was slave rebellion in the British Colonies,
and why was it feared more than any other issue facing the
Colonists, except perhaps the joining of white and black servant
classes together in revolt? Give evidence from the reading.
C. Chapter Three questions
1.According to Zinn was Bacons rebellion an important event in
the development
of colonial society in British North America? Why?
2. What was it like in British North America for new indentured
servants from
England, Ireland and Germany?
3. According to Zinn, why was the development of a middle class
in the American colonies crucial to the upcoming fight for
independence from Britain?
V. Documents:
A. Document Analysis Section
Document 1.
Join or Die by Benjamin Franklin. Appeared in Pennsylvania
Gazette on May 9, 1754
Refer to document 1 to answer the following prompt:
To whom was Franklin speaking when he illustrated this cartoon?
Why would they be his audience? What was his call to action to
these people? Why?
Document 2
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging
the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress
of grievances.
"The Constitution of the United States," Amendment 1.
Refer to document 2 to answer the following prompt:
What led to the drafting and ratification of the 1st Amendment
of the U.S. Constitution? Be sure to include the context of the
document in your answer.
Document 3
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that
nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long
endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have
come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place
for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It
is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
...that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have
died in vainthat this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of
freedomand that government of the people, by the people, for the
people, shall not perish from the earth.
Lincoln, Abraham. "The Gettysburg Address." November 19,
1863
Refer to document 3 to answer the following prompt:
How does the position (meaning job) of the author of this speech
affect the meaning of this document? Be sure to include specific
historical evidence in your answer.
Document 4
"The Union as It Was", Thomas Nast in 1874.
Refer to document 4 to answer the following prompt:
What message is Nast trying to convey to his audience? Be sure
to use specific details from the cartoon and your knowledge of
American History in your answer.
